Comment on The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
apis@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoMajority view amongst TERFs, and yes, a foot in the door.
Additionally, though the ruling places no onus on toilet* users, it does place obligations on toilet providers, and in any case will be used to harass and bully people who just need to pee in peace. Most of those who’ll be persecuted by TERFs & friends will be cis, many will be intersex, a tiny handful may be trans.
In this sense your landlord is spot on, but he himself may find his business targeted for civil action under this new ruling on the interpretation of Equalities Act, should a TERF learn of his approach.
Worse, toilet providers are now prohibited from abandoning gendered toilets in favour of unisex toilets - if they have a unisex toilet, they must also provide a ladies’ toilet.
Am wondering how best to help our trans & intersex & gender non-conforming siblings, besides writing to representatives, and protests. Could we agree to use our much greater numbers to swiftly demonstrate through our own toilet selection that the law is an ass which must be amended (and reversed to the previous status quo pending that amendment).
*using “toilet” throughout my reply as a placeholder for many single-sex spaces and not only toilets.